Building GitLab with GitLab: Stress-testing Product Analytics

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This post details the stress-testing of the Product Analytics stack by instrumenting GitLab.com, leading to a 17x increase in load and over 20 million events per day. This allowed for validation of scaling strategies, identification and resolution of query performance concerns, improvement of the onboarding experience for the upcoming Beta program, and planning for future improvements towards general availability. The team also explored leveraging AI to make it easier to find and understand Product Analytics data.